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Toyota and Lexus will be presenting sponsors at Saturday night's 21st annual Environmental Media Awards, which honor film and television productions that celebrate environmental messages in creative and influential ways.

Lexus, the luxury brand of Toyota, keeps making progress rebounding from the March quake and tsunami in Japan.

Toyota is claiming full production will help offset dismal September 2011 sales numbers that saw deliveries off 17.5 percent. Toyota USA reported September sales of 121,451 units.

Only 900 2012 Lexus CT 200h F Sport Special Edition hybrid sports cars will be assembled and put on sale at Lexus dealerships in the U.S. The 200h is one of three limited-production luxury cars introduced this week.

Lexus has taken the wraps off of a $41,000 2012 Lexus ES 350 Touring Edition limited-production model that adds sportiness to the luxury the Japanese marque is best known for.

Lexus has created a Special Edition model for the 2012 Lexus LS 460 Sport, it says to expand the brand’s "wider range of style and customer appeal." It now unveiled the price of the LS 460 special edition.

NADAguides reported today that American car buyers are paying a premium for new and preowned 2011 models that they really want. It's an unusual trend that more than 100 used 2011 models have a premium showroom value that surpasses 2011 MSRP prices – some preowned 2011s are worth almost 40% more than their original MSRPs.

The 2012 Scion iQ premium micro-subcompact car, which is coming to market later this year, will be ready to drive for the first time next month in Detroit at a press preview. TorqueNews.com will be there to provide first impressions of the car after the ride and drive event.

U.S. shoppers are using "bridge-the-gap" car leasing in greater numbers than ever before, according to the Web site LeaseTrader.com. “Bridge-the-gap” leasing is auto industry parlance for people taking over someone else’s remaining short-term car lease until dealer inventory levels return to normal so when they do they can buy the car they want to own.

Among trends in the leasing industry reported by LeaseTrader.com are that short-term leasing "remains strong," lease buyouts for Toyota and Lexus automobiles are easing and the Chevrolet Volt is gaining lease customers.

Toyota will help teen-agers and their parents learn to drive better by enhancing their skills with special driver-improvement training in October through its Toyota Driving Expectations program in California, Connecticut, Colorado and Washington state.

The Dodge Viper has been out of production for over a year but after watching the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, the Porsche 911 GT2 and the Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition bump the Viper from the top spot, Chrysler’s SRT division headed back out to the famous German race course with stunning results as the 2010 Dodge Viper ACR ran a lap of just 7:12.13 – easily putting the Viper back atop the list of the fastest production vehicles around “the ‘Ring”.

Toyota’s production of 2012 cars and trucks for sale in the United States and Canada is at 100% and recovery from the March 11 quake in Japan has exceeded expectations, an executive for the Japanese car company told reporters in Los Angeles today.

The Lexus GS 450h was the world’s first hybrid executive sports sedan at its debut in 2007, but returns at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show for the 2013 model year with a second generation hybrid drive system and an Atkinson cycle V6 gasoline engine in a front-engine, rear wheel drive vehicle.

The slump at Lexus is over. The luxury marque sold 10,331 cars last month, an uptick of 6.2% over the same period last year. The ES 350 (pictured), Lexus's entry luxury sedan, was the Japanese company's best-selling car (3,887). Another big boost: Lexus moved 3,238 hybrids in August, an increase of 56.1% over 2010.

In the Lexus ad, at first all is darkness, then a human avatar of 119 points of light slides through space as though riding an invisible conveyance when suddenly a much more detailed human form constructed from 2,000,000 points of light, comes in to view from the opposite direction – the two forms collide.

Last Friday we brought you the breaking news that the Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition had once again taken to the track from which it derives its name with record-setting results and we now have positive confirmation from the luxury automaker that their LFA supercar indeed set the production car record with an incredible time of just 7:14.64.

Lexus and Dunlop are teaming up to make the ultimate in luxury. The all-new 2013 Lexus GS 350 is a stunning luxury sedan, and this new model will appear with Dunlop tires when the vehicle is introduced early next year.

There has been no official word yet but according to multiple sources, the Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition has shown that its name is more than a marketing scheme as this specially tuned Lexus supercar has reportedly set the new production car record on the Nürburgring Nordschleife course with a stunning lap of just 7:14.

When the big game opens at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show later this month, Lexus will be holding three kings in their hand - the all new Lexus GS 450h plus European debuts of the Lexus GS 350AWD and the Lexus CT 200h F-Sport.

The 2012 Lexus LS 600h L Hybrid is the brand’s executive sedan flagship and will remain on slightly enhanced, presumably because when it was first introduced in 2008 it was the virtuous embodiment of the designer’s vision.

Lexus today announced Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Prices (MSRP) on its 2012 models ranging from the CT 200h hybrid premium compact to the LS 600h L premium luxury hybrid sedan. Below is the complete information of all the Lexus 2012 model prices.

After getting busted doing 128 in a 45mph zone in May of this year, Toyota Camry driver Kyle Busch got his day in court with the verdict being a loss of his driver’s license for 45 days along with community service and a hefty fine (for the average person).

With somewhat reserved fanfare, Lexus unveiled the fourth generation 2013 GS 350 luxury sports sedan at the Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach yesterday, with general manager Mark Templin and the man whose name embodies everything Lexus, Toyota, Prius and Scion - namely Akio Toyoda.